Emergency services were called after a 4X4 crashed through the window of a restaurant in Leicester’s Melton Road this morning.

The Lexus vehicle was embedded in the front of the Grand Durbar opposite the main entrance to Rushey Mead Academy.

Firefighters and police attend a road collision where a vehicle crashed into the front of The Grand Durbar restaurant, Melton Road, Leicester (Image: Chris Gordon)

The academy say no pupils were injured in the incident which happened as students were streaming into the building.

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One person was freed from the vehicle by firefighters from Leicester’s Eastern fire station called to the scene by police shortly after 8.15am.

Leicestershire Police said a second vehicle was also damaged in the incident.

Firefighters and police attend a collison where a vehicle crashed into the front of The Grand Durbar restaurant, Melton Road, Leicester (Image: Chris Gordon)

The vehicle had been recovered and the building was being checked for safety.

East Midlands Ambulance Service personnel were also on the scene, but it’s not known if anyone received treatment.

Car crashed into the Grand Durbar restaurant on Melton Road (Image: No byline supplied by member of public)

Minal Brahmbhatt, of Belgrave, who was dropping her son, Yuvraj, 12, at school and had pulled into the area near the restaurant to drop her son off at Rushey Mead Academy, said: “As we were heading to school a police van went zooming past us, but I never thought anything more of it."

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Minal, who took the picture above, added: “As we pulled into the side road where there is a lay-by to drop my son off I saw the car in the front of the restaurant. There was a family there who had come to drop their kids off to school standing outside the vehicle.

Firefighters and police attend a collision where a vehicle crashed into the front of The Grand Durbar restaurant, Melton Road, Leicester (Image: Chris Gordon)

"There were staff from the academy making sure the kids got to school okay.”

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Raj Sheth, of nearby Global News, said: “The shop was packed with kids at the time so we couldn’t get out. The Lexus hit my dad’s Kia and shunted it backwards before it shot forward and crashed into the restaurant window.

“We heard a bang when it hit and we heard a woman shouting. That Lexus is a powerful car. The bonnet and bumper on my dad’s car have been damaged.

Firefighters and police attend a collision where a vehicle crashed into the front of The Grand Durbar restaurant, Melton Road, Leicester (Image: Chris Gordon)

“It all happened in a quick flash and there were a lot of kids around so it’s lucky no-one was injured or killed.”

Restaurant owner Ahmed Wahid, 42, of Evington, Leicester, said: “I had a call from a friend who was driving past who sent me a picture. I was devastated when I heard it had happened, but the good news is there were no fatalities and no-one was injured, there are a lot of kids around there at that time.

“There was a lady in the vehicle and it sounds like an accident, pure and simple, there’s nothing we can do. One side of the front of the restaurant is fully smashed in. The fire service are pulling the car out now after the building inspector told them it was safe to do so.

Firefighters and police attend a collision where a vehicle crashed into the front of The Grand Durbar restaurant, Melton Road, Leicester (Image: Chris Gordon)

“My family has run the restaurant since 1988 and we’ve never had anything like this happen before. We won’t be open for a while and we’d just like to thank our customers for their support over the years and we ask them to bear with us - we will be up and running again as soon as possible.”